Valerie Bonham Moon, who edited this News & Commentary blog for a long time, posted a properly scathing analysis of the recent programs on unschooling at her Happy as Kings blog:

“…not only are the subject and the bias not news, they’re not new. Unschooling is so old, cyber-culturally speaking, that the newsletter-magazine devoted to it, Growing Without Schooling shuttered itself in 2001 after 24 years.”

And later:

“Watching the Nightline report on the Martin family, and the Good Morning America segment featuring the Yablonski-Biegler family confirmed for me why I’m a non-viewer of television news programs: I recoil at reporters poorly manipulating my thoughts. I’d react better to a well-planned manipulation that makes me think (which is what most nonfiction writing intends, in one way or another) than to a report that presumes I will go along with sharply edited interviews rolling across the screen in mere seconds-long bursts.”